Japan is accelerating a decade-old plan to extract rare earths from the deep seabed, an ambitious initiative given extra ...

When a country loses population, it gets more crowded. Imagine 10 guests at a house party. If they spread out through the living room, the kitchen, and the garage, the event has a comfortable amount ...

Global progress in eliminating gender inequality has been "precarious," while Japan can play a meaningful role in advancing equality, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous has said in a recent ...

Nigeria and Japan are seeking to unlock new trade and investment flows under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) ...

The Philippines likely reclaimed its position as the world’s second-largest banana exporter in 2025, when it expanded banana ...

Yet, Taiwan’s history is the unique result of contingent historical circumstances. If the King of Spain had pursued the Crown’s claims on Formosa with greater alacrity, we might all be learning ...

HIGHER supply from the Philippines helped shape global banana trade in the first nine months of 2025, a “noticeable recovery” from previous years of decline, said a report by the United Nations Food ...

Israel last year said it would prevent 37 aid organizations from working in Gaza for failing to submit detailed information about Palestinian employees.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that as the world faces a real risk of regressing to the law of the jungle, China and ...

The sample that contained rare earth was collected by a deep-sea scientific drilling boat, in a mission that Japan says was the world's first bid to tap the valuable minerals at such a depth – 6,000 ...

Havana is currently experiencing the highest infant mortality rate in Cuba, with a staggering 14 deaths per 1,000 live births. This unprecedented ...